On Agree without agreement as a source of reflexive voice constructions

(dis)agree: Movement and Agreement Reconsidered

Title of Dissertation: (DIS)AGREE: MOVEMENT AND AGREEMENT RECONSIDERED Pritha Chandra, Ph.D., 2007 Directed By: Professor Norbert Hornstein Department of Linguistics This dissertation examines Agree, a narrow syntactic, long-distance operation underlying phi-agreement in the grammar. Taking the strong minimalist thesis (cf. Chomsky 2000) as my point of departure, I question Agree on both concep...

Children Without A Voice

TRANSLINGUATOR: Web based application for Speech Translation of Human Voices based on Voice Forensics without Changing the Source Voice

Translinguator is a web based application that can be employed with the help of cloud computing technology. The application can be integrated with devices such as Mobile phones, tablets etc, or it can be designed with dedicated hardware as an independent device. It mainly involves the integration of various existing concepts in a specific sequence to obtain the unique desired output. This appli...

Voice Source State as a Source of Information in Speech Recognition: Detection of Laryngealizations

Laryngealizations are irregular voiced portions of speech, which can have morphosyntactic functions and can disturb the automatic computation of F0. Two methods for the automatic detection of laryngealizations are described in this paper: With a Gaussian classifier using spectral and cepstral features a recognition rate of 80% (false alarm rate of 8%) could be achieved. As an alternative a “non...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...